[AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???

[Mattias Kessén]

Dudley,
You are right about that, usually snow on unfrozen ground doesn't last long
but since we had new almost everyday... :-(

Mattias

2010/3/4 <drupert at seanet.com>

> >Charlie,
>
> Since Mattias said that the last weekend was their first days above
> freezing since Dec 12 but that the ground was warm causing melting from
> underneath I took that to mean that they had probably gotten their first
> snows of the season before any real cold weather had set in and that this
> snow then provided an insulating blanket preventing the subsequent
> continuous cold from lowering the temperature of the earth underneath the
> snow.  Of course, this may not be at all what happened -- maybe Mattias
> can tell us -
>
> Dudley
> >From Snohomish WA where we've had one of the sunniest/mildest February's I
> can remember in fifty years here -
>
>
>
> Ralph and Mattias, that is what has me confused about what Mattias is
> > describing.  I understand about the wind over the sea creating basically
> > what we call lake effect snow.  Our big snows here in coastal NC happen
> > that
> > way.  What I didn't understand is Mattias is that you said the snow melts
> > because the ground is warm and I'm having a hard time figuring that out.
> > As
> > far north as you are I would have thought that the ground would be frozen
> > like Perma-frost in the tundra.  I guess it just isn't normally as cold
> in
> > Sweeden as I imagined.
> >
> > Charlie
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???
> >
> >
> > Mattias, you'd like our weather I think. Daytime highs around -4c, thats
> > about 25F for the rest of you. No major snow fall for a few weeks now but
> > we
> > still  have all the snow that fell since early December of course. You've
> > had far more snow than us. At a guess I'd say over the whole winter we
> > have
> > had about 16 inches (less than half a metre) . I don't know what the
> > ground
> > temperature is because it is generally frozen solid for a few feet down
> by
> > this time of year and pretty hard to get a thermometer into.:-)
> >
> > Ralph in Sask.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???
> >
> >
> > The ground is warm here to, luckily. I don't want to know how it would be
> > outside otherwise. It has fallen 2.70 meters of snow but it's only 80 cm
> > since it has melted from below and a whole lot the last weekend. The last
> > weekend was the first days above freezing since dec. 12. Since it has
> been
> > melting from underneath the small creek we have has been like in the
> > spring
> > since Dec. 15th but with some ice.
> >
> > We sure don't want this weather, you can keep it Ralph!
> >
> > Mattias
> >
> >
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